one ton of obey president turns a twelve lead in the military's celebrates with an information blackout all right activists on fall they are bad news for the admiral march on the white house. here a vision that sees a cut in cash and competitors a small country say they're too poor to take part in the flashy new european song contest. also iran the schools or some points in the west as the e.u. praises the progress of nuclear talks even the white house to censor one from sanctions minded senator. and anger a child privacy in the u.k. as a new report finds more than a million british students have given the finger prints just so they can get in at school or bora

a library book. they're watching r t international with me to say it's good to have you company with us of the sun today first human rights activists and lawyers and journalists are standing shoulder to shoulder and preparing to march on the white house with one demand shut down guantanamo bay saturday is now the end all day of action news to protest of indefinite detention at the war on terror prison and as artie's a nice to see a chicken i reports age has a mellowed guantanamo one bit. hidden on a tropical island a symbol of promises made being far from promises kept will leave an appalling

black mark in the history books unless the people who advocate for its continued existence when and if they win then i. suppose that civilized values that america has will be gone forever twelve years ago the us brought to guantanamo its first detainees of the war on terror the us and powerful sections in the ruling class of the us want a place that openly defied international law it's a decision that's been made and that they want to display a place that we can treat people however we want to whenever we want to the tube is poured into the bag scandal surrounding torture and force feeding mass hunger strikes of desperation and dozens of suicide attempts that hasn't been something that has been an issue since i have been here in a facility that has long stopped making sense if it ever did spike the rhetoric it really isn't about national security or prisoners being so dangerous that they can't possibly be released and therefore that can't be true out of seven hundred

seventeen nineteen needs held at guantanamo in these past twelve years only seven have been convicted and sentenced we have seen eleven prisoners released between august and december last year compared to just five men in the whole of the previous three years so it's movement but it would be unwise to think that you know we're nearly there there are hundred fifty five men still in guantanamo and seventy six of those men were cleared for release the u.s. struggling with what to do with them and then even bleaker future still ahead for the other seventy nine prisoners facing the abyss of indefinite detention. because they were somewhere somebody whether they're innocent or guilty is not our job right here kitty have after a majority of detainees went on. hunger strike last year obama's administration was pushed to make baby steps again marred by double standards and overlooking the law international treaty obligations mean that we shouldn't be sending people back to

countries where they face the risk of a treatment of torture this followed in some cases but completely ignored in others two men were recently sent to algeria amid grave concerns of possible persecution on the ground the guy who was our client jamila bey as he. spent his whole adult life basically in europe and in canada and there was really no reason why college educated guy was fluent in german and english and french and i should be sent home . and probably trapped there unable to emigrate because of the stigma of the future of some of those released over the years even more questioned and increasingly grim as media claims surfaced that the cia might have reportedly been engaged in recruiting some of the prisoners as double agents in exchange for freedom our job here is to do the safe legal humane and transparent care and custody of the detainees while an alleged tug of war between the president's will to shut the prison and congress resisting this is officially used as an excuse to avoid simply

closing the place down despite obama's personal promises to do so i think the only reason he can get away with that is by portraying it really as a credit mess you know as if this was somehow harder to do now that it was five years ago he was president but politicians human rights organizations legal experts and common sense have called for an end of the struggle of guantanamo prisoners but america's self-made mess of the last twelve years is already so hard to clean up their reasons to keep it around are likely to breed more anniversaries to come and they say if you're going to r.t. me. in terms of transparency twenty fourteenth off to american start from guantanamo washington is trying harder than ever to control the information coming out of the present but snippets still leak out here. the latest from a shy kid a medal of the last british inmates at guantanamo ended he describes the humiliating searches inmates are forced to undergo even if all they want to do is

telephone their lawyers he then describes how even the gods will sometimes have a second thought about what they doing and how they are forced to carry out genital searches share as then i q's of the camps a new doctor of being just another student asked the commanders disposal policy rosedale from the reprieve a legal action charity says the more we find out about one tunnel the heart of washington tries to bury it out of sight and i think we are two things. we know that when you open prison on the scrutiny. finally present obama trying to down what happened last year with the widespread on the front of more than one hundred detainees and we really saw a little momentum for the first time. toward closing the curtain again but the other thing we know are the military. were practically that kind of reference

reasoning and we're seeing a real deterioration now i'm going to obviously there are there were huge challenges when you've been planned out without trying to challenge for twenty years and to really talk to the cases. you're really lacking apology without without. without. all in my mind all the men i was going to want to get on the league normal i was overjoyed. at the institute. we'll be covering the march on the white house as a gets underway later on or just stay with us here on our to international for that . the list of acts taking part in europe's biggest and flashers singing contest has been confirmed and it's getting shorter by the year economic troubles are forcing country after country to jump the euro vision ship as r.t. zeerust. reports.

knowledge represented russia at the u. revision song contest in twenty ten despite only coming eleventh he describes his participation as a major highlight which propelled him to new heights our audience grew very very much many people get to know us and so they began to come to our concerts it was great. music experience because it was a concert on the great greatest. auditory that i could ever imagine. from drag queens to hellish creatures and some of europe's brightest talents one of the world's most watched t.v. programs the eurovision song contest brought fame to the likes of celine dion and julio iglesias however votes have not always been spread purely for it to stick qualities say researchers from switzerland actually east giving us a measure of specie international relations or their. european countries is

measuring the show us the and its culture and then she's in french in what will be their market and it's this nation's in twenty two and three weeks after angela merkel pushed for creation of the european financial stability facility to bail out collapsing economies a german teenager was crowned the euro visions winner. but ironically it's the europe wide financial turmoil which is now threatening the whole existence of the contest in twenty eleven one financial turmoil was already raging in europe eurovision saw a peak participation of forty three countries next year poland and armenia withdrew from the contest in twenty thirteen there were joined by boss near turkey slovakia and portugal this time caray share serbia bulgaria and cyprus have also jumped off the eurovision ship. and that list could expand as many simply cannot afford to take part in the huge circus that is your vision like cyprus where roughly. every fifth person is unemployed i'm not an expert on the euro region and white what's

happening i'm describing the situation in cyprus and i'm not surprised that this decision has been taken and given the fact that the. other domains i'm talking about here with education culture the shows bosses say there's nothing to worry about we refresh the format and continued to do so whenever needed to keep the euro vision song contest the most popular pan-european entertainment t.v. show but at this rate of countries dropping out of the competition they would likely have to invent something very soon to keep europe's longest running song contest from losing its voice. reporting from moscow. not only have here a vision be millions in contestants of the budget has also been on the decline in two thousand and ten no way spent fifteen million euros as highs that would up twenty two million spent by germany in two thousand and eleven in two thousand and

twelve so we didn't cut that budget by hov and this year the plan budget has been cut by more than half again. we contacted national gouramis kaiser for a couple of worth on how the financial crisis is forcing european countries to quit the song contest instead he decided to give us a lesson in modern gramma with his own special twist. because presence out of the word of the year by the american dialect society after the humble conjunction exploded with new grad medical possibilities and twenty thirty mm ben zimmer chair of the new words committee of the american dialect society said no longer does because be followed by or for cause now one often the c. ters flee worded rationales like because science or because reasons you might not go to a party because tired america losing empire because lazy j.p.

morgan paying yet another multi billion dollar fine because of criminal yet another wedding party getting it wrong because us about the department of justice losing faith in the value bitcoin because concern troll the n.s.a. spying on every single person on earth because just because. he says very good progress has been made in talks with iran on implementing a nuclear deal that was agreed in november and to run itself insists all of the standing issues have also been resolved but it's positive signals have been counterbalanced by an internal round across the atlantic the white house says senators who support a bill proposing further sanctions and risk pushing america into a war you know what my explains. it was just a few months ago inside the united nations headquarters where the presidents of iran and the us laid groundwork for new and positive diplomatic relations however

the historic success achieved over the past four months may soon be significantly compromised if not destroyed by america's own lawmakers according to reports fifty nine u.s. senators are now bathgate a new copy of unilateral sanctions aimed to increase pressure on iran for its nuclear program this means that the senate is just one vote away from the sixty needed to pass most legislation with the house of representatives which is already showing strong support for economic pressure against tehran according to reports the legislation would blacklist several iranian industrial sectors and threaten banks and companies around the world with being banned from the u.s. market if they help iran export any more oil now the provisions would only take effect if tehran violates the six month interim deal or lets it expire without a comprehensive nuclear agreement now u.s.

president barack obama has vowed to veto the bill if it makes it to congress but the problem is if the senate actually achieve sixty seven votes it could override a presidential veto the obama administration says additional economic restrictions could threaten a historic diplomatic opportunity with iran that's been cementing over the past few months let's remember in november world powers reached an interim deal with taking on over its nuclear program and negotiations on a final agreement are still underway not only will more sanctions compromise the success that's already been made but the white house says it will only timidly make a potential war with tehran all the more likely however u.s. lawmakers sponsoring the bill believe that washington should keep piling on the pressure and ultimately want to see iran's nuclear program completely. dismantled oddly enough at least sixteen democrats are supporting new sanctions sadly if

president obama's historic diplomatic progress with iran comes crumbling down it will be due in part to members of his own party reporting from new york marina r.t. . senators backing the new sanctions bill claiming it will serve as an insurance policy in future nuclear talks but the policy director of the national iranian american council things this is nothing but a pretext for something much worse they claim that this is not a violation of the interim deal it is a violation of the interim deal the deal says no new sanctions this imposes new sanctions there's a lot of word games being played but really it comes down to these senators don't want to see a deal they don't want to see a diplomatic solution they view this as their way or the highway either. iran completely capitulates potentially you have a regime change or something like that or the united states is going to go to war

and i think that probably president obama and the u.s. negotiators would rather be focused on go sharing with iran to get a nuclear deal rather than having to negotiate with hardliners in the senate just to protect the nuclear deal that he's already achieved so he's in a very tough spot and i think this really undermines the position of the united states going into those negotiate negotiations because it conveys his message that the president is not in control of his own foreign policy. violence escalates in iraq as the government tries to push terrorists ot of key cities coming up a solemn feel the blood shed just some americans who fought in the country say the violence is now rooted in a society ripped apart by one. and a way to get upright for romance later this hour we meet the people hosing down and painting up a city perceived by birds at the top of the great. drugs

some of the sixty percent of imports came from illegal fishing. the european union is ironically taking fish from some of the poorest nations on earth so this is a very serious and very urgent problem that needs immediate international action. the territorial waters the fish they load the fish into the ships and leave for. illegal fishing just taking the bread out of our mouths. right. first trip. and i think what you're. on our reporters would.

be in the. sense that what you're arguing for is that the kurds should put that identity above that national identity let me ask you a personal question are you a kurd first or an iraq at first i'm a kurd first then i'm a rock. i am not iraqi that i am a kurds because let me ask you that question i am from holland i have been bombarded you know i still remember the smell of the chemical weapons so what iraqi identity brought to me iraq and it brought to me the killings of people mass graves four thousand five hundred villages were destroyed.

thanks for staying with us here on r.t. international at least ten people were injured in ukraine's capital kiev as an anti-government protesters clashed with police demonstrators blob's law enforcement passes on various in the capital is through rocks at the vehicles and try to pepper spray the offices they were. called ruling to pledge three activists in jail for six years each there's activists were allegedly planning a terrorist act to blow up the moment of insanity. while on a million children in the u.k. have had their fingerprints taken by the schools as a form of identity a new report says an assault the parents of almost a third weren't even asked for their consent archies laura sullivan have said what critics say is worrying attack on child privacy. gone are the days when the only

time you'd be off your fingerprints is if you were suspected of a crime nowadays they're starting them young at school to be precise research shows more than a million schoolchildren have been fingerprinted and their biometric data used to identify them for things like cash free lunches checking attendance and what library books they're borrowing it is controversial the big brother watches particularly worried about schools having access to this information and the car particularly when it's been collected without parents' consent and absolutely so it seems that over a million children in a single academic had this information collected so i think it's really necessary for schools to be transparent especially when it's related to very sensitive personal information what's your solution and obviously parental consent should be sought. how can we make sure for example at this date or is discarded once children leave school well the first stage in terms of ensuring that the right procedures are taking place was updating the law to say that parents absolutely have

a legal guarantee that their consent should be sought and also children have to be incorporated into the process as well not only as public education process to teach them the importance of questioning went missing on information but also to understand just what's happening within the system the school itself the figures show forty percent of secondary school pupils have been targeted and thirty one percent of schools didn't see parental consent so as they go back to school after the festive break children are handing over sensitive personal data in many cases not knowing that they're within their rights to refuse and big brother watches main concern that an entire generation of children will grow up conditions to think that's normal. china shapes ups and the ships out it's become the world's largest quarter of goods ever taken the u.s. with more than four trillion dollars worth of trade crossing its borders take a look at the numbers crunching and out. and protests as

a demanding justice for three kurdish women that murdered in paris last year have been unceremoniously haste away from in front of the french embassy in istanbul you can find the pictures online. stallings stokley people of the city is besieged by swarming flocks of birds who leave their telltale moghul ever saudis you've got me going off when to find out the weird and wonderful tactics people they're using to clean up the slippery streets. rome one of the most beautiful and romantic cities in the world a popular destination for lovers or enthusiasts history addicts and. being with counselors it all falls on top of cars roads and on pedestrians it's very slippery to. birds hundreds of thousands of

starlings which migrate to rome from the north every year leaving their mark as they go. shoulder every year this same we're surrounded by a show. the city annually spends tens of thousands of your arse tackling the flying menace is feces a special operation in itself ok it's so dry it's very difficult to clean it off these birds are worse than vandals it's like they're angry with me personally. but the real mission takes place at sunset dressed in protective gear and armed

with a loud hailer scientists storm the bird's favorite sleeping spots and this irritating noise is none other than a recording of other starlings making a sound which warns of approaching danger the goal is to scare the feathered falls to less populated areas. and i mean we took the idea from science books it works great but only for short periods of time. but even when they do manage to scare the birds usually they just move to other residential zones and always come back at sundown. of course is a good issue isn't the worst problem i suggest you leave the peace to those waiting to get in sight see here unless you have a megaphone it may be a good idea to grab a brillo even if the weather forecast is a clear. r.t. rolled. the thing as i am now to other stories making headlines around the world a shooting an opposition rally in thailand's capital bangkok has killed one person

and left seven injured witnesses say it happened during a scuffle between two groups of people one of which was made up of anti government in the street has the country is in the midst of a political uprising that tens of thousands demanding the resignation of the prime minister who they accuse of corruption. fierce fighting between iraqi special forces and militants in the province of reporting cost at least fourteen thousand people to flee the neighboring regions violence has been escalating as the government tries to regain control of the two key cities in the area including for lucia after they fell into the hands of al qaeda affiliated fighters a cuppa tea is a former u.s. marine and he thinks the u.s. led invasion has helped to widen the sick tarion gaps in iraq's society. i think the reason that there's discontent in iraq right now is because the u.s.

led occupation put in place a lot of structural injustices that are the root of all the violence in iraq right now one of the results of the occupation of iraq was that the sunni community. became a very marginalized targeted group within iraq so this is the root of a lot of the fighting in the province right now. i think for the u.s. government to continue arming the rocky government to facilitate their internal oppression of various ethnic minorities within the country i think that would be very immoral on our part and i think it would be even more immoral for us to send troops to participate in this repression. hundreds of people have reportedly fallen sick in the year with a massive chemical spill into a west virginia river the incident has led to an indefinite ban on tap water for around three hundred thousand people who have been affected across my counties i just make a note as has more. state and federal authorities are working around the clock in

charleston west virginia after a spill leads chemicals into the elk river just one mile upstream from a local water treatment facility so the spill comes from a forty eight thousand gallon chemical storage tank for freedom industries right now west virginia governor earl ray tomblin has declared a state of emergency for nine counties surrounding charleston west virginia schools and businesses have been closed and the three hundred thousand or so residents that have been affected by this spill are told not to drink the water not even to wash their hands with it you know something else to keep in mind here is that some of the symptoms that are involved in this or that authorities are warning residents of is burnings wrote hands and arms and skin local grocery store owners have described the mad dash by local residents there as pandemonium in order to get. their hands on some clean bottles of water residents there are even resorting to buying bags of

ice and sporting drinks and soda and things like that in order to have something to drink as there is a shortage right now at the moment on the road to west virginia maggie lopez r.t. and r.j. international now a look at local fisherman under threat in west africa and of course if you're joining us now from the u.k. it's going underground with action to a ton see so stay tuned with us for that. technology innovation all the developments around russia. the future covered. put it on your arm in a light. i think i'm. a

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